Will my PC Run this? What CPU/GPU to get? What settings? System Specifications.

[Max255[PL]]

Yeah. But i recommend OCing it... What's your MoBo, RAM and PSU? Then i can tell u how much u can OC it.

[Steakslim]

Is 64 players the cap on ArmA 2? If so. Why the drop in the number of person that can play in MP. In ArmA 1. You could play 250 + person with the right hardware.

No I didn't say it was a cap, but most servers groan and ache with horrid lag and crash often when you starting going higher, save for those few who can take the beating.

[Spetz]

Well, in all fairness, a Q9650 isnt that much slower than a i7 920 (Assuming you don't bother overclocking). Better off waiting for something spectacular in future than spending hundreds to replace your motherboard and RAM.

the DDR-3 might make it more worth to upgrade, personally I would go for the Q9650, but say if I won a lottery, or I got a "real" job compared to my minimum wage job right now I would hit the i7.

[binkster]

Lol I like how you say if you win the lottery. One thing I did was I bought a q6600 and an aftermarket fan. With a 780i I was able to overclock with low temps to 3.2ghz. So 3.2ghz at 1600mhz ram hopefully will do its thing rather then spending the extra cash on a more expensive cpu.

I wonder how much of a difference the L2 Cache 12MB on a Q9650 would be rather than the L2 Cache: 2 x 4MB on a q6600

[echo1]

the DDR-3 might make it more worth to upgrade, personally I would go for the Q9650

You do realize that the difference between a DDR2 equipped system and the same one using DDR3 is very small?

@Binkster: Cache makes some, but not very much difference. The Q6600 will, when overclocked, outdo just about every one of the newer quadcores except for the Q9650. Same holds true if you overclock them as well. And 3.2 is relatively tame for what you can do with a Q6600. With a decent enough fan, motherboard and set of RAM you can hit up into the 4Ghz mark.

[Dwarden]

i would suggest to choose one of the new quadcores (if you mean just change CPU)

anyway i'm sure sixcore Opterons as server gunna kick ass

[SgtH3nry3]

anyway i'm sure sixcore Opterons as server gunna kick ass

Haha, what about the new dual Nehalem-based Intel Xeon W5580?
2 physical CPUs, with each 4 cores, each handling 2 simultaneous threads and some serious overclocking potential due to the D0 stepping.

[echo1]

That's nothing. Just wait till their Octo-core "Beckton" CPUs come out later this year.

[Riot69]

I hope it will works to me:-D I have new pc...one year old
Intel core 2 quad 3.0Ghz
Ram 4gb
Ati radeon 3870x2 1gb
I hope it will be enough for it and for massive MP battles

[SgtH3nry3]

That's nothing. Just wait till their Octo-core "Beckton" CPUs come out later this year.

HOLY SH*T!
Octo-core and 4xQPI... That means the possibility of a quadruple Beckton system with 32 logical processors (cores)!

The Jasper Forest tech looks promising aswell, with integrated PCI Express connections (on-die controller?).
Maybe they could do something similar for discrete graphics hardware to directly connect to the CPU instead of going through an I/O hub.
This could multiply bandwidth and decrease latencies by a tenfold!


Anyway, I reckon my stock Q9650 should be more than enough for Armed Assault 2.
But I'm still considering to upgrade to i7 tech, since those X58 boards also have SAS controllers.
Atm. I'm using Ultra320 SCSI instead of SATA, which is faster and offload the processor/Northbridge, but SAS disks and SSDs are becoming more and more affordable these days and it already kills SATA/300 at the same speed not to mention the better efficiency you get with striping.